Content warning. This episode contains discussion of violence, kidnapping, rape, and murder.

Today on the cheat sheet we'll be covering three Midwestern cases out of Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri, as well as one case out west in Utah.

My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist.

And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm a journalist.

And I'm Kevin Greenlee. I'm an attorney.

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Carjackers and convictions. You're going to be. So, Let's start with this carjacking case out of Ohio. It's been pretty widely covered. One article I found that seemed to summarize all the known facts in a pretty clear way was in people.com and this is just like an utterly nightmare story because I think if you're a parent,

it's very, very easy to imagine something like this happening to you.

There was a woman named Alexis Stakely. She is a single mother of a six-year-old. She

actually works a couple of jobs. She goes to pick up her six-year-old son from the babysitter.

She carries her son out, puts in the back seat of the SUV,

starts the car, and then she remembers oh he left one of his toys in the

babysitter's house. So just for a second she goes to grab that, leaving her sleeping child in the backseat of the vehicle,

and that is when the vehicle is a carjack, it's stolen.

And she sees this and she reacts in the way,

I think any loving parent would.

She wants to do anything possible to stop the vehicle and save her child.

She gets in front of the vehicle and it strikes her and it injures her so severely that she ends up passing away.

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